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Electric trucks like the F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T with their built in electrical outlets and massive batteries would solve the problem almost entirely. Wi

Electric trucks like the F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T with their built in electrical outlets and massive batteries would solve the problem almost entirely. With that you’d only need a couple of backup batteries in a charger plugged into the truck. Naturally companies won’t roll their truck/van fleets over right away but this pressure has potential to advance the timeline of that particular transition significantly.

grillvogel 5y ago
most landscaping operations are just a couple dudes and a old truck. now they have to buy a top of the line electric F150 to do their jobs?
- kitsunesoba 5y ago
  That’s just how it is now. In a few years, there will be old electric trucks to buy for such purposes. If combined with a phased banning of small ICE devices (such as that proposed by another comment on this story’s thread), the transition won’t be too bad. It’s never going to be perfectly smooth and it has to happen at some point.
  - flutas 5y ago
    > In a few years, there will be old electric trucks to buy for such purposes. With degraded, old batteries to match.
  - dzhiurgis 5y ago
    s/few years/few decades/g
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flutas 5y ago
> Electric trucks like the F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T with their built in electrical outlets and massive batteries would solve the problem almost entirely. With that you’d only need a couple of backup batteries in a charger plugged into the truck. > Naturally companies won’t roll their truck/van fleets over right away but this pressure has potential to advance the timeline of that particular transition significantly. Then you're just siphoning power from your transportation. With the limited-ish range on EVs[0][1], EPA estimates not being loaded down with the extra weight of equipment, and power losses due to voltage conversion I don't see this as a viable alternative...yet. Add in the cost of these vehicles being much higher than current ones[2][3] and this is most likely a non-starter for most of the affected. [0]: F-150 Lightning is estimated at 230 miles on the regular config https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/ https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/ [1]: Rivian R1T is very vague throwing out an EPA estimate of 314, then mentioning 400+ or 250+ mi https://rivian.com/r1t https://rivian.com/r1t [2]: F-150 Lightening starts at $39,974, a standard F-150 starts at $29,290. [3]: Rivian R1T starts at $67,500

grillvogel 5y ago

most landscaping operations are just a couple dudes and a old truck. now they have to buy a top of the line electric F150 to do their jobs?

kitsunesoba 5y ago
That’s just how it is now. In a few years, there will be old electric trucks to buy for such purposes. If combined with a phased banning of small ICE devices (such as that proposed by another comment on this story’s thread), the transition won’t be too bad. It’s never going to be perfectly smooth and it has to happen at some point.
- flutas 5y ago
  > In a few years, there will be old electric trucks to buy for such purposes. With degraded, old batteries to match.
- dzhiurgis 5y ago
  s/few years/few decades/g

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flutas 5y ago

> Electric trucks like the F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T with their built in electrical outlets and massive batteries would solve the problem almost entirely. With that you’d only need a couple of backup batteries in a charger plugged into the truck. > Naturally companies won’t roll their truck/van fleets over right away but this pressure has potential to advance the timeline of that particular transition significantly. Then you're just siphoning power from your transportation. With the limited-ish range on EVs[0][1], EPA estimates not being loaded down with the extra weight of equipment, and power losses due to voltage conversion I don't see this as a viable alternative...yet. Add in the cost of these vehicles being much higher than current ones[2][3] and this is most likely a non-starter for most of the affected. [0]: F-150 Lightning is estimated at 230 miles on the regular config https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/ https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/ [1]: Rivian R1T is very vague throwing out an EPA estimate of 314, then mentioning 400+ or 250+ mi https://rivian.com/r1t https://rivian.com/r1t [2]: F-150 Lightening starts at $39,974, a standard F-150 starts at $29,290. [3]: Rivian R1T starts at $67,500